KEEPING SEA STEP
A CONVOY DEVICE (Thom Ouk London Cohruspondknt.) August 1. More than ever in war time is necessity the mother of invention. Last war gave ns, amongst other things, the tank, the fool-proof hand-grenade, the Stokes mortar, and the paravane. True the parachute, now instrumental in saving lives in air crashes, was a uost-war device, but this war has already given us the protective belt to safeguard ships against magnetic mines, and now a very ingenious invention to enable ships to keep step at sea. In the ease of merchant convoys the great bugbear has always been the difficulty in adjusting vessels of greatly varying speeds to a common denominator. Failure to do this means spreading ami straying, and is the despair of all naval officers charged with convoy service. Some weird devices were improvised to deal with this trouble, some ol truly Heath Robinson conception, but at lust a Lon-
don electrical firm has produced a system of control indicators—one on the bridge and the other in the engine room which enables instantaneous adjustment to be made. A turn of the control keeps the vessel “ in step ” with the convoy. This should save many casualties and much strong naval language.
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Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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203KEEPING SEA STEP Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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